[ARC5] Addenndum: TU-4 vs. B-29 Radio Sets

[Mike Everette]

The Russki BC-348 copy has one more tube than the US original, at least according to eBay pictures I have seen.  Looks like they may have had examples of both types of BC-348, and...

"What we do, Comrade?"

"Stalin says 'Make like Amerikanski or we go to Gulag!"

"We make like BOTH?"

"Da, Comrade!"

Anyone have a skematik of the US-9 (BC-348) receiver?

There are stories of how even repair patches to cover battle damage on the impounded B-29s were copied... as well as the interior paint job.  Seems the factory had run out of green chromate primer, and painted part of the inside of one B-29 with white lead.  Supposedly the insides of Tu-4s were green-and-white, as a result.

My source is a book titled "Soviet Superfortress" which can be found on amazon.

73

Mike
W4DSE

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